Rediscover the tale of the simple country mouse who meets a cousin from the big city, magically retold by Helen Ward. Beguiled by his cousin's amazing stories, the country mouse visits the electric city. Unfortunately the town mouse forgot to mention the noise, the tall buildings - and the dangerous dogs! Helen Ward's 1930's New York is at once gorgeous and frighteningly busy - so that in the end, the reader understands both why the town mouse loves his exciting life and why the country mouse is contented with his peaceful home.
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Weight: 286g
Dimensions: 5 x 230mm
Publication Date: 01 Aug 2012
Publisher: Templar Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Age Group: Ages 0-5
ISBN13: 9781848774926
About Helen Ward
Helen Ward trained as an illustrator at Brighton School of Art under the direction of well-known children's illustrators such as Raymond Briggs Justin Todd Chris McEwan and John Vernon Lord. In 1985 her final year at Brighton Helen was awarded the first Walker Prize for Children's Illustration.Awards for Helen's work include The National Art Library Awards 1998 and 2001 for The Hare and the Tortoise and her version of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows in the Templar Classic series and The National Art Library Award for The Tin Forest. She was shortlisted for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award in 2003 for The Cockerel and the Fox. This book also won the award in the children's trade category at the British Book Design and Production Awards presented in November 2003.Helen Ward lives in Stroud Gloucestershire.
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